New Year's Eve

We had a fun party with friends at our house for New Year's Eve. Now that we can have fireworks in AZ on New Year's Eve the kids really look forward to the occasion :) I forgot to turn off the parental controls for the Satellite so we all watched the ball drop in Times Square for the count down to mid-night and just as we got to 3-2-1...the TV turned off! Oh well only half our crew was even still awake to witness that anyway ;)

Fort Dunn

The big portion of the boy's christmas presents was the promise that we were going to build them a tree house. We started that project New Year's Eve.  Since we decided against actually building it in a tree we determined that it was actually a fort instead ;) Brett Judy came over to help and we got a good start on it today.

Bruce's new church clothes

Grandma got Bruce a really cute church outfit for Christmas. He was really excited about it ;) Almost as much as I was!

Christmas!!

Christmas morning is always so exciting!! Santa brought the boys awesome things! Wayne got the baseball bat he wanted. Austin got a new chess set, and Brett & Luke got Ben 10 Alien changer watches! Perhaps the most exciting thing was the "new" trampoline in the backyard! Our neighbor's the Luebke's were generous enough to give us their trampoline that their kids have outgrown. We also bought several tickets to Diamondbacks games including opening day! We're all anticipating the Monster Truck show we bought tickets to at the end of January! The boys got to open their present from Santa and then we ran off to the Cook Family breakfast. We came home after that gathering to finish opening presents before we headed off to my parent's house. We had a few hours back at the house after that gathering before we ran off to Alisha's house. It was a busy day as usual, but we love seeing everybody.